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Laurie Buckhout: “It is 10 times less the bureaucracy to sell my hogs to China…”

Featuring: Laurie Buckhout, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House North Carolina, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 06:08

And he said, I sell most of them to China. And I was, you know, you gotta make a living. So I asked him why and he said, It is 10 times less the bureaucracy to sell my hogs to China and have it finished and produced than it is to go with an American company. And that's because of the overregulation in agriculture and in agricultural products. You'll see the same thing with soybeans, peanuts, cotton, and the price rising to produce those across all farming endeavors. (06:08–06:18)

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Asserts that selling hogs to China involves significantly less bureaucracy than selling to American companies.

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